Jon Sawyer is founder of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit journalism and education organization that began in 2006 with a donated office and has grown into a key source of support for enterprise reporting and engagement, with staff in 19 countries and partnerships with hundreds of news organizations and educational institutions. In conversation with Linda Winslow, a long-time member of the Pulitzer Center board, Jon will discuss the Center’s strategy and role on issues ranging from environment, human rights, and the emergence of AI to its partnership with The New York Times on The 1619 Project.

Jon Sawyer

Jon Sawyer, founder of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, moved to Cleveland Park in 1980, when he became a member of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He reported from more than 80 countries during his career with the Post-Dispatch, with long-term projects on topics ranging from the risks of nuclear waste to the fall of communism, the end of apartheid, and the tragic failure of U.S. policies in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, he founded the Pulitzer Center, an award-winning journalism and education non-profit organization. It has pioneered collaborative multi-platform reporting projects and innovative audience engagement, at a time of profound disruption in old journalism models.

Linda Winslow

Linda Winslow was the Executive Producer of PBS NewsHour from 2005 to 2014. That job capped a lifelong career as a public television producer. She was a producer for PBS's award-winning coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973, which is where she met Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer. They created the program that became the PBS NewsHour. Linda was the Deputy Executive Producer of that program from its inception in 1983, and managed the transition to the first all-female national news anchor team, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill.